in another manner he could have cured her
could have thought it and it would have been
done, could have waited till all had departed
and taken her aside and whispered: you are
healed: after all after eighteen years a few more
moments of existence as unclean is just a bit
more time: he chose to speak to her: unthinkable
he chose to touch her: and he chose to cleanse her
on a sabbath: to hell with all rules and all snickers
and all propagated misogynistic thoughts: he cured
through love and mercy and still men are bound by dead words, beloved do not be bound for as
she smiled so did i
